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Joseph de Maistre: Reappraisals/Reconsidérations
Programme
Jesus College, Cambridge
Day 1 – December 5
09.00-09.30 – Coffee and Registration
09.30-12.30 – Welcome Session
09.30-09.45 - Opening Remarks by Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge)
Chair – Prof Gareth Stedman Jones (University of Cambridge)
09.45-10.15 - Jean-Louis Darcel (University of Savoy) – Memento (read
by Carolina Armenteros)
10.15-10.45 – Richard Lebrun - (University of Manitoba) – ‘Joseph de
Maistre as Pamphleteer’
10.45-11.15 – Darrin McMahon (Florida State University)- The CounterEnlightenment, the Genius Figure, and the Political Power of the Unchained
Intellect
11.15-11.45 – Michael Kohlhauer (University of Savoy)- Marcuse on Maistre
11.15-12.30 - Questions and Answers
12.30-13.30 – Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 – Panel Session 1
Maistre’s German Reception
Maistrian Criticisms
Chair: Dr Duncan Kelly (University of
Cambridge)
Chair: Mr Martin Ruehl (University of
Cambridge)
Yannis Constantinidès (University of Paris
XI) – ‘Deux grands ennemis des Lumières:
Joseph de Maistre et Schopenhauer’
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo (Brussels) ‘Actualité d'un penseur "antimoderne" et
"moderne": Joseph de Maistre et l'idéologie
mondialiste’
Isabel DiVanna (University of Cambridge) –
‘Carl Schmitt Reads Joseph de Maistre’
Ryohei Kageura (University of Strasbourg
II) – ‘La réception des idées maistriennes
dans la sociologie de Walter Benjamin’
Joe Eaton (National Chengchi University,
Taipei) - ‘“This babe-in-arms”: Joseph de
Maistre’s Critique of America’
Ivan Jaffrin, ‘Joseph de Maistre face à
l’usurpation de la souveraineté: la
Raphaël Cahen (LMU München/UPCAM AixMarseille III) – ‘La reception de “Du Pape”
de Joseph de Maistre en Allemagne à
travers la correspondence de Friedrich von
Gentz’
performance d’une indignation’
Cyprian Blamires – ‘Berlin, De Maistre, and
Fascism’
14.50-15.30 – Question and Answers
15.30 – 16.00 – Coffee
16.00 – 17.30 - Afternoon Session 1
Chair: Dr Istvan Hont (University of Cambridge)
Maistre and the Enlightenment
Chair – TBC
Carolina Armenteros (University of Cambridge) – ‘Maistre’s View of Women: A Response to
Rousseau’
François-Emmanuël Boucher (Collège militaire royal du Canada) – ‘Maistre, la philosophie
des Lumières, sa signification et sa généalogie’
Benjamin Thurston (Charterhouse) - ‘Joseph de Maistre: The Paradox of the Writer’
17.00 – 17.40 - Questions and Answers
17.40 – 18.40 – Drinks reception
19.00 – 22.00 – Conference dinner
Day 2 – December 6
09.00-09.30 - Coffee on arrival
09.30 – 11.10 – Panel Session 2
Maistre’s Francophone Fate
Maistre and Theology I
Chair: Professor Robert Tombs (University
of Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Jeremy Jennings (Queen
Mary, University of London)
Tonatiuh Useche Sandoval (University of
Paris I) – ‘Une lecture du Pape de Joseph de
Maistre par Auguste Comte: deux
théorisations du pouvoir spirituel’
Élcio de Gusmão Verçosa Filho (Pontificia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo) –
‘Observations on the pedagogical nature of
Maistre’s thought’
Kevin Michael Erwin (Columbia University) –
‘“Le mystique de la tradition”: Barbey
Worships at the Altar of Joseph de Maistre’
Silvio Berardi (Università degli Studi “La
Sapienza”) – ‘The Universal Theocracy of
Joseph de Maistre’
Stella Ghervas (Geneva) – ‘Maistre versus
Stourdza: une controverse entre “deux
athlètes laïques” de la chrétienté’
Guennadiy Samouijlov (Moscow) – ‘Joseph
de Maistre’s “Bogoslovia”’
10.30 – 11.10 – Question and Answers
11.10 – 11.30 – Coffee
11.30 – 13.10 – Panel Session 3
Maistre and British Thought
Maistre and Theology II
Chair: Dr Richard Bourke (Queen Mary,
University of London)
Chair: Dr Michael Sonenscher (University of
Cambridge)
13.00 – 13.20 - Pierre Glaudes (University
of Paris IV) – ‘Maistre et Hobbes’
13.00 – 13.20 - Henri Carrières (Brasilia) ‘La théodicée de Joseph de Maistre’
13.20 – 13.40 - Joseph Pappin III
(University of South Carolina) – ‘Edmund
Burke and Joseph de Maistre on Political
Reason, Tradition and Authority’
13.20-13.40 - Miguel Nanni (University of
São Paulo) – ‘The Historicism of the
Considérations sur la France’
13.40 – 14.00 - Philippe Barthelet - ‘Joseph
de Maistre et les platoniciens de Cambridge’
13.40 – 14.00 - Aimee Raile (Georgetown
University) - ‘The Savoyard Philosopher:
Joseph de Maistre’s Deism’
12.30 – 13.10 – Question and Answers
13.10 – 14.00 - Lunch
14.00 – 16.10 – Afternoon Session 2
Chair: Dr Moritz Baumstark (University of Cambridge)
– Emile Perreau-Saussine (University of Cambridge) – Why Maistre Became
an Ultramontane
–Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge) – De Maistre and Sacrifice
– Jean-Yves Pranchère - Le négatif des Lumières, le positif de
l'ordre et l'impossible positivité de l'histoire
15.30 – 16.10 – Questions and Answers
16.10 – 16.40 - Coffee
16.40 – 17.00 - Closing Remarks by Pierre Glaudes (University of Paris
IV)
17.00 – 18.00 – Drinks reception